Subskills

Subskills talk

I've always been aware of the importance of teaching reading and listening subskills, or strategies. But working on the secondary course Beyond, with its comprehensive subskills syllabus, has made me passionate about the need to give subskills a lot more attention in class. The talk below looks at why and how to spend more time teaching these key strategies.

Description

What are subskills and why is it so important to teach them? In this talk I’ll be showing how a systematic focus on reading and listening subskills will give your students vital tools for making sense of different text types, and give you a framework for choosing and preparing your own supplementary material.